15-letter words containing c, o, m, e, i, t
- premodification — an act or instance of modifying.
- private company — a company whose shareholders may not exceed 50 in number and whose shares may not be offered for public subscription.
- problematically — of the nature of a problem; doubtful; uncertain; questionable.
- program picture — a motion picture produced on a low budget, usually shown as the second film of a double feature.
- projection room — projection booth (def 1).
- pseudo-dramatic — of or relating to the drama.
- pseudo-romantic — of, relating to, or of the nature of romance; characteristic or suggestive of the world of romance: a romantic adventure.
- psychochemistry — the treatment of mental illnesses by drugs
- psychotomimetic — (of a substance or drug) tending to produce symptoms like those of a psychosis; hallucinatory.
- pulmobranchiate — possessing a pulmobranch
- pyrometric bead — (in a kiln) a ball of material that indicates by changing color that a certain temperature has been reached.
- pyrometric cone — (in a kiln) a triangular piece of material that indicates by bending or melting that a certain temperature has been reached.
- radiometrically — using a radiometric method, in terms of radiometry
- radiomicrometer — an instrument for measuring small amounts of radiant energy, consisting of a sensitive thermocouple connected to a galvanometer.
- radiotelemetric — of or relating to radiotelemetry
- recombinant dna — DNA in which one or more segments or genes have been inserted, either naturally or by laboratory manipulation, from a different molecule or from another part of the same molecule, resulting in a new genetic combination.
- recombinational — belonging or relating to recombination
- recontamination — the act of contaminating, or of making something impure or unsuitable by contact with something unclean, bad, etc.
- recreation room — (in a home or public building) a room for informal entertaining, as for dancing, games, cards, etc.
- redocumentation — The creation or revision of a semantically equivalent representation within the same relative abstraction level. The resulting forms of representation are usually considered alternate views intended for a human audience.
- resurrectionism — the exhumation and stealing of dead bodies, especially for dissection.
- retained income — retained earnings.
- rhyming couplet — a pair of lines in poetry that rhyme and usually have the same rhythm
- romantic comedy — a light and humorous movie, play, etc., whose central plot is a happy love story.
- rules committee — a special committee of a legislature, as of the U.S. House of Representatives, having the authority to establish rules or methods for expediting legislative action, and usually determining the date a bill is presented for consideration.
- sarcoptic mange — mange caused by burrowing mites of the genus Sarcoptes.
- secret mosquito — a high-pitched ringtone for a mobile phone, claimed by its distributors to be inaudible to most adults while remaining audible to children and teenagers
- self-combustion — the act or process of burning.
- self-commitment — the act of committing.
- self-committing — to give in trust or charge; consign.
- self-compatible — able to be fertilized by its own pollen.
- self-medication — the use of medicine without medical supervision to treat one's own ailment.
- semantic memory — the recollection of facts and concepts
- semi-conductive — Semi-conductive describes a component which conducts electricity less well than a good conductor but better than an insulator.
- semi-functional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
- semiabstraction — a work of art whose subject matter is semi-abstract
- semidocumentary — a film or television programme that is fictional but includes many factual events or details
- semilogarithmic — (of graphing) having one scale logarithmic and the other arithmetic or of uniform gradation.
- simple fraction — a ratio of two integers.
- sister of mercy — a member of a congregation of sisters founded in Dublin in 1827 by Catherine McAuley (1787–1841) and engaged chiefly in works of spiritual and corporal mercy.
- smoking-concert — a concert where smoking is allowed.
- social democrat — a person who advocates a gradual transition to socialism or a modified form of socialism by and under democratic political processes.
- social movement — a group of diffusely organized people or organizations striving toward a common goal relating to human society or social change, or the organized activities of such a group: The push for civil rights was a social movement that peaked in the 1950s and 1960s.
- socratic method — the use of questions, as employed by Socrates, to develop a latent idea, as in the mind of a pupil, or to elicit admissions, as from an opponent, tending to establish a proposition.
- sodium chlorate — a colorless, water-soluble solid, NaClO 3 , cool and salty to the taste, used chiefly in the manufacture of explosives and matches, as a textile mordant, and as an oxidizing and bleaching agent.
- sodium citrates — the sodium salts of citric acid (monosodium citrate, disodium citrate, trisodium citrate)
- sodium silicate — a substance having the general formula, Na2O.xSiO2, where x varies between 3 and 5, existing as an amorphous powder or present in a usually viscous aqueous solution
- somatic therapy — any of a group of treatments presumed to act on biological factors leading to mental illness.
- source material — original, authoritative, or basic materials utilized in research, as diaries or manuscripts.
- spectrochemical — of, relating to, or utilizing the techniques of spectrochemistry.